NKP Salve Challenger Trophy 2006/07 [1]
Date	1st – 4th October 2006
Location	Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Result	India Blue and India Red as joint winners.
Player of the series	VRV Singh (India Red)
Teams India Blue India Red India Green Captains Rahul Dravid Venugopal Rao Mohammad Kaif Most runs Sachin Tendulkar (200) Gautam Gambhir (184) Parthiv Patel (112) Most wickets Munaf Patel (5) Irfan Pathan (5) VRV Singh (7) Lakshmipathy Balaji (4)

The 12th NKP Salve Challenger Trophy was an Indian domestic cricket tournament that was held in Chennai from 1 October to 4 October 2006. The series involved the domestic players from India who were placed accordingly in the teams namely India Blue, India Red, and India Green. From this edition, the names of teams were changed from the previous edition where India Seniors, India A, and India B became India Blue, India Red, and India Green respectively.

The trophy was jointly shared by India Blue and India Red after the final was abandoned due to rain.^[2]

Squads

India Blue [3]	India Red [4]	India Green [5]
Rahul Dravid (c) Virender Sehwag Sachin Tendulkar Yuvraj Singh Dinesh Mongia Wasim Jaffer MS Dhoni (wk) Irfan Pathan Ravindra Jadeja Harbhajan Singh Ajit Agarkar Munaf Patel Rudra Pratap Singh Coach: Ian Frazer	Venugopal Rao (c) Gautam Gambhir Robin Uthappa Subramaniam Badrinath Rohit Sharma Tejinder Pal Singh Dinesh Karthik (wk) VRV Singh Sreesanth Ramesh Powar Zaheer Khan Murali Kartik C. Raghu Coach: Robin Singh	Mohammad Kaif (c) Sourav Ganguly Mithun Manhas Hemang Badani Suresh Raina Tanmay Srivastava Piyush Chawla Parthiv Patel (wk) Ashish Nehra Lakshmipathy Balaji Praveen Kumar Reetinder Sodhi Saurasish Lahiri Coach: Lalchand Rajput VVS Laxman

• Mithun Manhas replaced VVS Laxman in the India Green squad, after he was ruled out due to a strained hamstring ahead of the tournament.^[6]

Points Table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	NR	Pts	NRR
1	India Red	2	2	0	0	8	0.382
2	India Blue	2	1	1	0	4	1.247
3	India Green	2	0	2	0	0	−1.754

Matches

Group stage

1 October 2006 [7]

India Red 280 (50 overs)	v	India Blue 259 (47.3 overs)
Gautam Gambhir 110 (119) Munaf Patel 3/49 (10 overs)		Sachin Tendulkar 61 (70) VRV Singh 3/49 (10 overs)

India Red won by 21 runs. M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai Umpires: Sameer Bandekar (IND) and Shavir Tarapore (IND)

• India Red won the toss and elected to bat.
• Points: India Red 4, India Blue 0

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2 October 2006 [8]

India Blue 381/6 (50 overs)	v	India Green 115 (26.4 overs)
Sachin Tendulkar 139 (100) Lakshmipathy Balaji 2/62 (10 overs)		Parthiv Patel 43 (38) Harbhajan Singh 4/10 (4.4 overs)

India Blue won by 266 runs. M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai Umpires: Jasbir Singh (IND) and Ravi Subramanian (IND)

• India Blue won the toss and elected to bat.
• Points: India Blue 4, India Green 0

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3 October 2006 [9]

India Red 317/4 (50 overs)	v	India Green 278 (48.4 overs)
Robin Uthappa 92 (99) Lakshmipathy Balaji 2/68 (10 overs)		Parthiv Patel 69 (80) VRV Singh 4/54 (7.4 overs)

India Red won by 39 runs. M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai Umpires: Jasbir Singh (IND) and Shavir Tarapore (IND)

• India Red won the toss and elected to bat.
• Points: India Red 4 , India Green 0

Final

4th October 2006 [10]

India Blue 210/4 (31.2 overs)	v	India Red
Virender Sehwag 90* (81) Zaheer Khan 2/32 (6 overs)

No Result. M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai Umpires: Ravi Subramanian (IND) and Sameer Bandekar (IND)

• India Blue won the toss and elected to bat.
• Rain stopped play during India Blue's innings and no further play was possible.
• The trophy was jointly shared by India Blue and India Red.

References